This is an analysis of the poem Hiawatha's Fishing that begins with:
Forth upon the Gitche Gumee,
On the shining Big-Sea-Water, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaAaXbcdAceXafeedAcbgXcbeXbagXaegbchaieidcAdeXaXaAaaaXXadajcXXXXdklXaXjdgXeaLXGXekXfkXXcfdjabbabbbeaXkLfGXcfXdhjaeaaajgkgdkdabhachaXbaejmdmXkfXXdgeiXdlaXXXagbdkbbkcckceXbccaXebbXakkahbXbaaXkkadeaXXXbeXXebXikgcjbbXjkabajbbdajbbbbjjbXbacX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 236,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011 10101110 00101010 00101010 10101010 1101010 00101010 10111010 10101010 11101010 11001011 10101010 10110010 1010011 10101010 10111010 10111010 00101010 00101010 11001110 10101010 10101000 00101010 11001010 10110010 1010110 10101010 10111010 00111111 00111011 11101010 11101011 10101010 10111110 10101010 10110011 10101110 10111010 11111010 10001010 10111010 00101110 00101010 1011011010 10001011 101111010 11001010 111100100 11101010 10101010 10101110 11101110 10101110 1011110100 10101010 10100010 10111010 100001110 00101010 11100010 11100100 00101000 100100110 10101000 00101010 10111110 11100011 10101110 10110010 00101000 11101010 10111010 11101110 10101000 10101001 11101010 100101011 11101100 11101110 111010100 10100010 10101010 10101010 10100011 00101010 100100110 10101000 101010010 10100011 10101010 10101010 10110010 10101010 111010010 10100010 10111010 10101110 10101010 11101011 10101010 10101100 11100010 100101011 11100011 11101110 111010100 101010010 10100011 10101010 10101010 10100010 00101010 10101010 00110010 11101010 100011110 10101010 10101011 00111010 10100011 10011110 10111010 10011010 10111010 10111110 11101010 10101010 10101010 11101110 10011010 11100010 00101010 10101010 10111110 10101011 11111010 11111110 11101010 10101110 10101010 00111010 11101110 10101000 11101010 11101010 10101010 11101001 101101010 10111011 10101010 10111111 10101010 11111000 101011110 10101010 111000010 11111010 11101010 101001010 11101010 11101010 11101010 11101010 11101110 101010100 10101010 10101010 10101011 10101010 101001011 01001110 101110100 10100110 101101000 11100010 10100010 101111110 11101010 10101010 011010010 11100110 110001010 11101010 10110011 110010100 101110011 10111010 101110010 00101010 10101010 00100010 00100010 10111010 11101010 10100010 11101100 11100100 10001010 10101010 00111011 10110110 101010011 100111011 11110011 10101100 11110110 00100010 10111010 11111010 11101111 01101010 11111110 111110100 11101011 10101011 10101010 11001011 01101010 101010011 11101110 01101010 00111010 11000010 10100011 10111110 10111011 11001011 11001010 100111010 11111100 11001011 10101010 10111011 10111110 10101110 10100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 8135
- Average number of words per stanza: 1385
- Amount of lines: 236
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his, he, and, you, in, from, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words lay, with, you, heard, till, from, and, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cedar, bottom, answer, hiawatha, nokomis are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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